The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-07

Special Correspondence Palatka NEWS.
SEVILLE, FLA.

special correspondence Palatka NEWS
FEDERAL POINT. FLA. Jan. 5.
Your correspondent has been too busy
closing up the Old Years affairs and
starting on the New Year to devote
much time or thought on news, or even
subjects of general interest, but the
''rush" is over and we will let your read
ers know that we still live, and that
Federal Point is yet on the move. The
late cold snap has passed over without
doing any material damage. The low
est point that the mercury reached was
30 above zero, not cold enough to injure
oranges, or to kill tomatoes that were
covered, but ] must confess that our
cold weather is not at all enjoyable, for
where we do get a little cold snap fell
low feels as though he was going to
freeze up solid and no mistake. This is
owing to the peculiar damp atmosphere
/ suppose which makes the cold Ienetra-
ting and lees able to be borne, but we are
we'll out OF this snap and leave further
Comments to those who were injured.
1t seems to me that if / was editor Of
"the leading, most enterprising and con-
trolling newspaper in this State" that
would not disgust the public with long
editorials in regard to my private affairs
or indulge in vituperative articles, call
ing my patrons liars and the like elegant
is certainly disgusting to the public.
Probably the editor thinks he is smart!
Our Board of Aldermen held their first
meeting last NJ, nday night, but for obvi-
Gus reasons failed To do more than organ
ize and take some preliminary action to-
wards getting down TO good working or
der.
The farmers are very busy planting
their Irish potatoes, as now is the proper
time for that work.
The weather has been 60 bad that but
few oranges have been picked, and /
presume the growers will hold on for a
month or two until the glut in the mar
ket is well over. and send only small lots
from time to time.
The hauling off of the old Charleston
line of steamers has rather demOralI2ed
the shipping routes with US. and as the
Clyde line seems to operate on the ''lucky
go easy" plan, without head or tail to
their work that we can find out. we
are giving the Florida Dispatch line the
preference this year, with satisfactory
results thus far.
We fail to patronize the Fruit Grow
ers' Association for the simple fact that
they are not quite as good a. our old
commission houses. We notice that
they are trying to make it out that, by
thrusting the fruit into market and soil
ing it off in the easiest possible way,
putting themselves antagOnistic to and
at the mercy OF the com mission dealers,
they are doing the biggest kind Of thing.
but that method would hardly answer
the purpose of ordinary business. and l
rather think it won't in this Ii they
would meet with the best success, they
should have large storage buildings in or
near the central points, with sub-agents
all through the country and fix the prices
themselves, not being at the mercy of
all the hucksters in each city. who can
combine at any time and knock the bot
tom out of their auction prices when
ever they please. But as l hold none of
their stock and don't ship to them, it
may be as well for me to say as little as
possible about the matter, only do wish
some method might be devised to handle
our fruit to better advantage than it is
now. ,)